What's the difference between dolly and holly?

Dolly


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
  • (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
  • (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
  • (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
  • (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
  • (n.) A child's mane for a doll.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the local beauty parlour run by Truvy (Dolly Parton), the two meet new employee Annelle (Daryl Hannah).
  • (2) © Focus Features Where Dolly, a kind, pious, modest, anxious figure, the mother of five living and two dead children, belongs very much to the old Russia, Stiva Oblonsky, her husband, is recognisable as the caricature of a modern man.
  • (3) Dolly Parton has offered to adopt a dog that was found abandoned at Glastonbury festival, after rescuers named the canine after her.
  • (4) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
  • (5) Dolly, the police spokesman, said officers had succeeded in protecting local businesses from a second round of thefts.
  • (6) It will be me on the leaflets.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Matthew Wright with his dog Dolly in Bolton.
  • (7) And that, of course, was the most disturbing aspect of the story of Dolly.
  • (8) In Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent the camera is moving on a dolly throughout the entire movie.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aunty Dolly Jerome calling for justice for the Bowraville child murder victims during a march on NSW Parliament House.
  • (10) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
  • (11) Trout fry (Dolly Varden), aquatic insect larvae, and periphyton (attached algae) within and below the treatment site during and after treatment did not show signs of mortality compared with an upstream untreated control site.
  • (12) Once there, Lomax - a trainspotter to the end - enquired about the gauge of tracking used for the dolly shot.
  • (13) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
  • (14) The son of two devoted workers for the Salvation Army, Jeffries disliked personal publicity and was a zealot when preparing a role (he ran two miles every morning before appearing in the musical Hello Dolly!
  • (15) Dolly the sheep , the world's first successfully cloned mammal, was given the name in 1986 by scientists who were fans of the singer.
  • (16) Sergeant Colby Dolly, a spokesman for St Louis county police, said at a makeshift command centre early on Tuesday morning that some 150 officers had been involved in the operation and had made about 10 arrests.
  • (17) Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!
  • (18) The car service area has vintage motors sitting on mechanics' dollies, and there's an exhibition area, a bar, a kitchen, and two old buses that serve as offices.
  • (19) Dolly's 'creator', Ian Wilmut, of Scotland's Roslin Institute, was equally stunned.
  • (20) Country music star Dolly Parton has answered the critics who questioned whether she was miming during her Glastonbury set in her own inimitable style, telling the Sun : "My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."

Holly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Wholly.
  • (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.
  • (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (2) Holly Combe, a member of Feminists Against Censorship , shares these concerns.
  • (3) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
  • (4) Lerner is now more detached from the club than ever and in January appointed Steve Hollis as chairman after admitting Villa have “not been on a stable footing for at least five years”.
  • (5) The butandioldehydrogenase was examined in 153 strains of Eikenella, Moraxella, Acinetobacter, Agrobacterium, Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Pasteurella, Cardiobacterium and "TM-1" of Hollis et al.
  • (6) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (7) Paul Dryhurst, a relative, said she had been in the arena with her sister Claire Booth, 34 and Claire’s daughter Hollie, 11.
  • (8) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
  • (9) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
  • (10) I would like to thank every worker out there who stood up for themselves and their families in asking for $15 per hour,” said Holly Dias, a Burger King worker who spoke at the press conference.
  • (11) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
  • (12) The American owner has confirmed Hollis, a former deputy chairman of Birmingham Metropolitan College, as his replacement at Villa Park.
  • (13) Holly Branson, daughter of the tycoon Richard – whose company Virgin sponsors the race – was at the finish line waiting to give Lomas the Virgin trophy for endurance.
  • (14) The isolate seems identical to the lactose positive (L+) Vibrio described by HOLLIS et al.
  • (15) 1984: Virgin Atlantic Airways formed; 1986: Virgin Group floats on stock market (bought back two years later); 1987: Branson crosses Atlantic in balloon; 1998: Branson invests in railways; 1999 he launches Virgin Mobile and is knighted; 2000: he fails to win National Lottery bid Family: Wife Joan, children Holly, 21, and Sam, 16 Hobbies: Ballooning, sailing and the occasional publicity stunt.
  • (16) No dental fluorosis was observed in deer collected at Medway Plantation, but mild dental fluorosis was observed in a significant number of deer collected at Mount Holly Plantation.
  • (17) The smelter was located on Mount Holly Plantation in South Carolina, and concentrations of skeletal fluoride in the deer collected at Mount Holly increased approximately five-fold 3 yr after the operation began.
  • (18) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
  • (19) Holly qualified as a doctor, and now works in the Virgin empire, and Sam is working on this documentary.
  • (20) The 36-year-old was taken for treatment after he was attacked at Frankland prison in County Durham, where he is serving two life sentences for murdering schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.